Memory, history and identity | New Telegraph
Memory, history and identity | New Telegraph --- Memory, history and identity March 29, 2014 12:09 am | By: Didi Cheeka | No Comments Screenings and Conversations at iREP Doc Fest 2014 Cinema, the unseen voice in Eva Knopf´s Majub´s Reise (Majub´s Journey) narrates, is an art that strives to make stars shine. Extras, the voice continues, are the dark night-sky background. Majub´s journey sets for itself the task of lighting up the dark oft he nightsky, to make a star of a bit player. This cinema essay tells the story of a Majub bin Adam Mohamed Hussein, aka Mohamed Husen, who lived and worked as an extra in the movie industry in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Majub was born in Dar es Salaam, a former German colony. He became a soldier for the Germans during World War I – when he was only nine years old. Eva´s film – interweaving meticulously researched facts and inferential evidence, traces Majub´s footprints, from his childhood in the colony to his lif...
